marvin martian
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Stay addicted and die, plebes!!
There's a bipartisan effort to get Biden to leave this program alone, but since he doesn't even know what year it is, it's unlikely he'll listen.
Drs. Brian Barnett, a psychiatrist, and Jeremy Weleff, a resident in psychiatry in Ohio, wrote that “to the astonishment of the medical community,” Biden on January 27 reversed a January 14 change by the Trump administration to allow nearly all physicians to prescribe buprenorphine.
The doctors described the drug buprenorphine as “one of the most effective treatments for opioid addiction,” adding:
Barnett and Weleff further opined:
“Lawmakers — led by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who are joined by four members in the House — are reintroducing legislation that would eliminate the rules and urging the president to support the bill,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The lawmakers are reportedly calling on the president to “deliver on your promise to expand access to medication-assisted treatment” in a letter obtained by the Washington Post.
There's a bipartisan effort to get Biden to leave this program alone, but since he doesn't even know what year it is, it's unlikely he'll listen.
Joe Biden Nixes Trump Reform to Boost Opioid Addiction Treatment
U.S. President Joe Biden fumbled early on opioid addiction, rolling back a Trump administration reform to increase access to treatment.
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Drs. Brian Barnett, a psychiatrist, and Jeremy Weleff, a resident in psychiatry in Ohio, wrote that “to the astonishment of the medical community,” Biden on January 27 reversed a January 14 change by the Trump administration to allow nearly all physicians to prescribe buprenorphine.
The doctors described the drug buprenorphine as “one of the most effective treatments for opioid addiction,” adding:
The Biden administration argued that the Trump-era change had legal problems, including a failure to receive clearance from the White House budget office.Previously, only doctors who had completed an eight-hour training course and obtained a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration could [prescribed buprenorphine]. Only 7% of physicians are certified to prescribe the drug, and more than half of rural counties lacked a single prescriber as of 2018.
President Biden had promised during the campaign to abolish the licensing requirement, known as the “X-waiver,” which President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services moved to nix a week before he left office. After France eliminated a similar regulation, the number of patients receiving buprenorphine increased tenfold, and opioid overdose deaths dropped by 80% in four years.
Barnett and Weleff further opined:
In a rare show of bipartisanship, a group of lawmakers is urging Biden to let more doctors prescribe buprenorphine.We hope this about-face wasn’t political. But if the only issue is procedural, why not let the change stand until Congress passes legislation to regularize it? There is every reason to do so: Nearly 130 Americans die of opioid overdoses on an average day, and a bipartisan bill has already been proposed, with plans for reintroduction.
“Lawmakers — led by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who are joined by four members in the House — are reintroducing legislation that would eliminate the rules and urging the president to support the bill,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The lawmakers are reportedly calling on the president to “deliver on your promise to expand access to medication-assisted treatment” in a letter obtained by the Washington Post.